Rock & pop review: Mercury Rev, Snowflake Midnight

Ten years after Deserter's Songs became a gorgeous Americana classic, Mercury Rev have made another masterpiece. The subjects of this album are drawn from the same sweetly sinister world the band always inhabit, but ambitious electronic textures push their sounds further. Senses On Fire meshes the giving heart of early Brian Eno with a keen Krautrock pulse, Dream of a Young Girl As a Flower is like Michael Nyman on acid, but People Are So Unpredictable is the real heart-stopper, a song that twists platitudes about the uncertainty of life into a seven-minute epic full of bells, groans and spine-chilling harmonies. It's incredible. Turn up the speakers and drop that jaw.

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